Dartmouth Events

Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - Victor Colussi (CMT)

Title: "Exploring Quantum Fluids with Ultracold Atoms"

2/23/2022
3:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Zoom (email for link and passcode)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Abstract:  Quantum fluids display such spectacular macroscopic quantum effects as superconductivity and superfluidity.  Yet underlying these phenomena is a deceptively simple question: What happens when particles cease to become separate objects and begin to feel their surrounding neighbors?  Understanding this transformation in the presence of strong correlations has remained a difficult question across many branches of physics.  Recently, ultracold atomic gases have emerged as a versatile platform for the applied quantum simulation of these systems.  I will describe on-going efforts using ultracold atomic Fermi superfluids to search for the condensed matter version of the Higgs mode. I will also highlight how the discovery of counterintuitive Borromean few-body states in ultracold atomic Bose gases has opened up a new frontier in the study of strongly correlated quantum fluids.

For more information, contact:
Tressena Manning
tressena.a.manning@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2854
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